{"id":275,"date":"2009-02-05T14:21:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T12:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.louic.nl\/?p=275"},"modified":"2011-05-27T17:35:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T15:35:43","slug":"drawing-organic-molecule-structures-in-gentoo-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.louic.nl\/?p=275","title":{"rendered":"Drawing structures of organic molecules in (Gentoo) Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In gentoo portage, there are several programs to draw structures of organic molecules. The best one is <strong>gchempaint<\/strong>. Not in portage, but also very interesting is <strong>bkchem<\/strong>. A Gentoo ebuild is available, but needs to be installed from a portage overlay. To install it, just use the commands below (where I assume you have a portage overlay correctly set up in \/usr\/local\/portage).<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n# mkdir -p \/usr\/local\/portage\/sci-chemistry\/bkchem\r\n# cd \/usr\/local\/portage\/sci-chemistry\/bkchem\r\n# wget http:\/\/bkchem.zirael.org\/download\/bkchem-0.12.5.ebuild\r\n# ebuild bkchem-0.12.5.ebuild digest\r\n# emerge -va bkchem\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>If you want to make some final adjustments to the structure of the molecule, I suggest saving the molecule as an svg image, and making the adjustments with inkscape.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bkchem.zirael.org\/\">BKChem website<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nongnu.org\/gchempaint\/index.html\">GChemPaint website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In gentoo portage, there are several programs to draw structures of organic molecules. The best one is gchempaint. Not in portage, but also very interesting is bkchem. A Gentoo ebuild is available, but needs to be installed from a portage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.louic.nl\/?p=275\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,34,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.louic.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.louic.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.louic.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.louic.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.louic.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blog.louic.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/blog.louic.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.louic.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.louic.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.louic.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}